Method of making button-hole strips



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- MORRIS P. BRAY, OF ANSONIA, ASSIGNOR TOHENRY \V. LYON, OF BRIDGE- PORT, CONNECTICUT.

METHOD OF MAKING BUTTON-HOLE STRIPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,916, dated October1, 1889.

Application filed February 16, 1839. Serial No. 300,150. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS P. BRAY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Method ofMaking Button-Hole Strips; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableoth- Io ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same. I

My invention relates to certain improvements in the method of makingbutton-hole strips for use in corsets or other garments; and

I5 it consists in the operations and details of manufacture, such aswill he hereinafter fully set forth, and then particularly pointed outby the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a button-holestrip made in accordance with my invention, but with the continuousbinder omitted; Fig. 2, a similar view with the continuous binderproperly attached; Fig. 3,a detail elevation showingthe first-step z 5in my method; Fig. aha similar view showing a strip partly made, andFig. 5 an elevation showing the manner of securing the completed stripwithin a corset.

Similar letters denote like parts in the sev- 0 eral figures.

My method contemplates the making of the completed strip from separatesections 1, 2, 3, 4., and 5. The sections 1 2 are first placed side byside with their ends in alignment. A binder 6 is nowstitched around saidends and throughout the length thereof, thus uniting the sections 1 2,as clearly shown at Fig. 3. Section 3 is now placed side by side withsection :2 and with one end in alignment with the unbound end of section2, and these ends are also united by a binder 6, stitched thereto. Theremaining sections are joined in like manner. These sections are nowswung, so as to extend in the same direction and bring the bound endsinto parallelism, as shown at Fig l. A buttonhole strip is thus formed,and I then stitch a continuous binder 7 around the front or closed edgeof the strip throughout the length thereof to constitute the finishedstrip shown at Fig. 2.

In securing this strip within a corset or the like the unbound or openedge is inserted between the plies of such corset and united thereto bystitching, as shown at Fig. 5.

I claim- The method of making button-hole strips from separate shortsections, the same consisting in placing the ends of successive sectionsin alignment, uniting said ends by stitching a binder around the sameand throughout their length, swinging the sections so united intoextended alignment, whereby the strip is formed and said bound ends arebrought into parallelism to form the button holes, and stitching acontinuous binder around and throughout the length of the front orclosed edge of the strip, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I ail-"ix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

MORRIS P. BRAY.

WVitnesse-s:

F. W. SMITH, J12, GEo. M. EAMES.

